Uli

@Uli@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Welcome to my me-infested home.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is me at all ages I can remember. By extrapolation, I can only assume I spent my toddler years fighting for the rights of the proletariat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now I Can See It....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It had no effect.

  (I am already constantly aware of this, it’s annoying)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, turns out we experienced the peak of civilization. Someday, people will be begging to party like it’s 1999.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's exactly like that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That long, huh? I think we can do it way faster in the next one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you’re thinking of a vanlion. Common mistake. A villain is actually a large, luxurious country house or estate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to flash 256GB image to almost 256GB flash drive, space is barely not enough!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, 256! is about 8.5781777534 × 10⁵⁰⁶. Lots of numbers are less than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snooze⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gotten up really early and played video games for a few hours and the saw a touch of light in the sky and panicked because it looked like evening and I thought I’d spent the whole day gaming and missed my afternoon flight, but actually it was just the sun coming up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean there, done that.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed - both because of the incredible craftsmanship, and because they said Count the Rice several more times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean there, done that.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, I watched it once, and then watched it again as a drinking game where I took a little sip of wine every time they said Count the Rice. Good episode of television.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it reasonable to tell a person you once loved about the fact years later?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, even if there is no reciprocation expected, from their perspective, they will think this is in the hopes of reciprocation. And the more OP tries to convince them it’s not, the less convincing it will be. That kind of contact, regarding feelings from the past, just makes one instantly defensive and apprehensive about the idea that they may soon have to rebuff an advance. Which means finding any excuse to not socialize, respond to texts only minimally, don’t do anything which could feed into the idea that you are getting closer to them which could provoke an advance with underlying expectations and potentially a negative reaction upon rejection. It’s an inherently uncomfortable situation because of that underlying subtext of motive that doesn’t go away with any amount of explanation. There are many routes into so many open hearts out in the world. But this route does not lead to love, platonic or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one of these that has a tracker in it, so even if my phone dies, I can find both my wallet and my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sprout 🌱⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trellis the lot of it. What could go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My cat knows about nuclear war. He simply hasn’t chosen to exercise the knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon remembers a family guy cutaway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agreed. Only seasons 17, 18, and 19 are canon in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  None, that’s a jar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flashbang!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, they seem to communicate by vomiting and bleeding from their skin. Interesting…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, the problem would be worse because he would be a martyr and out of the news enough that his crimes would fade away into history. And a different fascist would lead that group. At least this way, there is some chance a few more people will finally understand he is a thieving pedophile rapist with no intention of ever helping anyone other than himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨functional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But if they evolved to be right triangles with their sides marked by three dots, four dots, and five dots, then the message will be spot on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LIKE CORN!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fog corn leg corn!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethereal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A tragedy on another scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If people's voices become copyright protected in the future as a response to AI, will any non-commercial uses of voices be affected as well?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While you are correct about copyright on this subject, the more applicable topic here is Right of Publicity. It is state law in over half of US states, intended to protect the use of a person’s voice likeness.

  Essentially, if an imitation voice is used in such a way that it could cause confusion about whether it is really the imitated person, then it is illegal to use it in any commercial context. I understand that the question here was about non-commercial contexts, but that line can get blurry when social media views can create followings that then translate into commercial success. I am not a lawyer by any means, I’ve just been researching this for my own AI voices applications and want to protect myself from accidentally imitating anyone.

  For example, I need to be able to transform my voice into many other character voices, since I have so many lines to record it would be cost prohibitive to hire actors. The worst move would be to download a voice model of a known actor and use that directly. Very sketchy, both legally and ethically.

  So, the next best move is to find three or four voice models and merge them into one with combined tensor data from all three. But I was still quite concerned about this, worried that in the many thousands of voice lines I make, some recognizable actor voices would slip through.

  So, I came up with the following pattern that I feel much more comfortable with, both legally and ethically:

  I download several voice models that have some quality in common - an accent, vocal timbre, or style of speaking. Then, I merge them to make a model that focuses on that trait. And I record myself saying a line with a lot of phoneme variety, trying to match the vocal trait as close as possible. Then, that merged vocal trait model is used to transform the recording of my voice into the new voice. Then, I use this transformed recording to train a new voice model. And I take a few of these generalized models (e.g. an accent, a tone, a speaking style) and use them to create the final character voice, which should in theory be far removed from any of the actors who contributed.

  I’m not sure what OP’s use case is, if it’s truly non-commercial, this method might be overkill. But if anyone wants to try using AI voices in projects but is nervous about legal ramifications, this is one way to try to insulate created voices from the specific training data. YMMV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moon Dust⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We should let him know he’s not allergic. He might be going out of his way to avoid moon dust for no reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am two of them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Off when?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has fries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon made the right call, she only wanted him for his fries, she would have been gone once the fries were gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has fries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The prophecy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess there’s two kinds of ignorance at play here.

  The kind I was referring to is the ignorance of high standards. If you don’t know that you can live in a state of constant dopamine drip supplied by your cellular device, because cellular devices haven’t been invented yet, you wouldn’t miss those dopamine hits that you don’t even know will exist. I think OP would have been just fine if they were born into an earlier generation. Because they would have the bliss of not knowing what future they’re missing out on.

  But to your point, the constantly supplied bliss from our internet bubbles does make us more ignorant to the things outside our bubble. And these days, the things we focus on are often dictated by the corporations who make the addictive apps. So, those corporations will profit by directing away from knowledge about how those same corporations are destroying so many parts of our world. In this case, I would argue that the ignorance is still bliss. It’s just a malignant harmful bliss that distracts from the real things we should be concerned about. And in a way, if it could snap us out the destructive path we’re on, I could see how another Carrington event might actually act as a wake-up call regarding our blatant hubris in thinking that society is ever safe from collapse.

  As you mentioned, there are those who live in parts of the world where they have no access to technology, still living in that blissful ignorance of pre-computerized times. But that is a social bliss. They will still be hurt by the geological effects that the industrial age has wrought. And it won’t be pretty.

  So, I think I would agree with your assertion, plus an addendum. Ignorance isn’t bliss. But it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I look at TV shows like OP is talking about and think it might be kind of nice to live in an era where things are slower. If a library book might take weeks and you need to go into town to get a comic book, or there’s nothing to do until dinner except maybe some activity with the people in your close vicinity, it feels like a much more intimate way to experience the world. But I do remember in my early teens when the first wave of Personal Data Assistants came out, and I was wowed by the technology. I can edit a computer document right here in the palm of my hand. Keep my contacts with me, a calendar, a calculator, simple drawing programs. It felt like that device could do everything, years before smartphone was a word. Now I carry two phones around on two different carriers because I too fear a world without service. I sometimes want to go back to the slower world, so I do at times relish long waits at the DMV with nothing to do, or a power outage on a stormy night. But I hate feeling like I’m wasting my time. Even when there’s nothing to do, I’m always trying to do something, it’s just that being constrained forces me to pick different things. So, I’m not sure if it would help or hurt OP to hear that if they grew up before any of this existed, there’s every possibility they would have felt more fulfilled. Because time was something you could still get a handle on and not feel like it’s always slipping away. At least, not so much. In that sense, ignorance can really be bliss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on his comment history, this guy doesn’t seem very well liked in general. Lots of incel vibes, and he does have some comments in German which I can’t read, but based on the downvotes, I think it’s safe to say his views are unpopular in any language.